Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here [Immersion Edition 2011] (2 CD + DVD / FLAC)

Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released on 12 September 1975 by Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and a day later by Columbia Records in the United States. Inspired by material the group composed while performing around Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded during numerous recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios in London, England. Two of the album's four songs criticise the music business, another expresses alienation and the multi-part track "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is a tribute to Syd Barrett. Barrett's mental breakdown had forced him to leave the group seven years earlier prior to the release of the group's second studio album A Saucerful of Secrets (on which he only appeared on three tracks). It was lead writer Roger Waters' idea to split "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" into two parts that would bookend the album around three new compositions and to introduce a concept linking them all. The band had used a linking concept for their previous album, The Dark Side of the Moon, to great success. As with The Dark Side of the Moon, the band used studio effects and synthesizers and brought in guest singers to supply vocals on some tracks of the album. These singers were Roy Harper, who provided the lead vocals on "Have a Cigar", and the Blackberries, who added backing vocals to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".

Wish You Were Here was an instant commercial success (despite the fact that Harvest Records' parent company EMI was unable to print enough copies of the album to satisfy commercial demand), and although it initially received mixed reviews, the album has since gone on to receive critical acclaim. It appears on Rolling Stone's lists of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and the "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time". Band members Richard Wright and David Gilmour have cited Wish You Were Here as their favourite Pink Floyd album.


 

Fleetwood Mac - Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2018 / FLAC)

This spectacular 3 x CD set features some of the finest live shows ever performed by Fleetwood Mac! Formed in London in 1967, Fleetwood Mac have gone through as many personnel changes across the last 50 years as any band from that era still in existence. And although two members from the start still remain on board in the shape of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, and Christine Perfect (later McVie s wife, after which she adopted his name) joined in 69, the biggest change came when Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined Mac in 1975. This spectacular 3 x CD set features some of the finest live shows ever performed by Fleetwood Mac, kicking off with a performance the newly-augmented band gave in December 1977 in Tokyo, Japan, some 10 months after the release of their classic Rumours LP. Next up is a gig played at the Inglewood Forum in California in October 1982, hot on the heels of their Mirage album, released a little earlier that year. The set is concluded with a large scale show the band gave in Sydney, while on their 1990 Beyond The Mask tour. Featuring too a number of bonus cuts from some early television appearances, this delightful CD set will no doubt become a must-have item for fans of the band everywhere!

 

 

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Live at Woodstock (2019) [Hi-Res]

Riding the success of their #1 album, Blood, Sweat & Tears hit the road, thrilling audiences with their punchy live performances. In August 1969, the group triumphantly appeared at Woodstock, performing ten songs from their first two albums, all of which had received frequent airplay on FM radio.

•     David Clayton-Thomas: vocals, guitar
•     Steve Katz: guitar, harmonica, vocals
•     Dick Halligan: keyboards, trombone, flute
•     Jerry Hyman: trombone
•     Fred Lipsius: alto saxophone, piano
•     Lew Soloff: trumpet, flugelhorn
•     Chuck Winfield: trumpet, flugelhorn
•     Jim Fielder: bass
•     Bobby Colomby: drums

1.     More And More
2.     Just One Smile
3.     Something’s Coming On
4.     I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know
5.     Spinning Wheel
6.     Sometimes In Winter
7.     Smiling Phases
8.     8. God Bless The Child
9.     And When I Die
10.     You’ve Made Me So Very Happy

 

Linda Ronstadt - Transmission Impossible [3 CD, 2015] (FLAC + 320)

 THREE CD SET FEATURING THE VERY BEST OF LINDA RONSTADT LIVE.

 Sadly, now retired following a diagnosis of Parkinson s disease, Linda Ronstadt lent her quite extraordinary voice to over 120 albums, and sold more than 100 million records, during her lengthy career, which spanned more than 45 years from the mid-1960s until 2011, when Linda was forced to quit. One of the world's best-selling artists of all time, Christopher Loudon, of Jazz Times (not a journal that readily commends pop and rock performers) wrote in 2004 that Linda Ronstadt is "blessed with arguably the most sterling set of pipes of her generation . 

This 3CD set celebrates Linda Ronstadt s musical achievements, by featuring herein broadcast recordings of some of the finest concerts the girl from Arizona ever performed. DISC ONE, includes Linda s superb performance at The Record Plant in Sausalito, CA, on 18th November 1973, while DISC TWO captures her show at The Universal Amphitheatre in LA on 3rd November 1976. Concluding this exceptional boxed set, DISC THREE features Linda Ronstadt with The Nelson Riddle Orchestra, performing together at The Arlington Theater, Santa Barbara, on 9th March 1984. 

Pink Floyd - The Wall (Immersion + Experience Box Set) [3/6 CD + DVD 5, 2012] (FLAC + 320)

 

One of the most acclaimed concept albums of all time, The Wall from 1979 is renowned as Roger Waters’ Rock Opera dealing with abandonment and personal isolation. Adapted for cinema by Alan Parker featuring Bob Geldof in the lead role, and featuring the unique artwork of Gerald Scarfe the album also yielded the hit single Another Brick In The Wall Pt2. The Immersion version features the classic Studio album digitally remastered and presented as a limited edition high quality boxset featuring rare and unreleased audio and video material, plus a new 44 oversized perfect-bound booklet, a book of original photographs, exclusive merchandise and facsimile collectables.

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Disc 1&2 – CDs 1&2 -The Wall digitally remastered by James Guthrie, 2011

Discs 3 & 4 – Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-1981

Discs 5 & 6 – Unreleased Demos Discs 5 and 6 expands the on the contents of those included on Disc 3 of the Experience version, containing two discs worth of unreleased demos by both Waters and the band.

Disc 7 – DVD Various videos relating to The Wall (total: 72:00)